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The aim of a Backgammon game is to shift your checkers around the Backgammon board and get them from the board faster than your challenger who works harder to do the same buthowever they move in the opposing direction. Winning a match in Backgammon requires both tactics and luck. How far you can move your chips is left to the numbers from rolling a pair of dice, and how you shift your pieces are determined by your overall playing strategies. Enthusiasts use different strategies in the different stages of a match dependent on your positions and opponent’s.

The Running Game Tactic

The goal of the Running Game tactic is to bring all your chips into your home board and bear them off as quick as you can. This strategy concentrates on the pace of advancing your chips with little or no time spent to hit or stop your opponent’s pieces. The ideal time to use this plan is when you think you can shift your own chips a lot faster than the opponent does: when 1) you have a fewer checkers on the board; 2) all your chips have past your opponent’s checkers; or 3) the opponent does not employ the hitting or blocking technique.

The Blocking Game Plan

The main aim of the blocking plan, by the name, is to block your opponent’s chips, temporarily, while not worrying about shifting your checkers quickly. After you’ve established the blockade for your competitor’s movement with a couple of chips, you can move your other pieces quickly off the board. You should also have a clear strategy when to back off and shift the chips that you employed for the blockade. The game gets intriguing when the opposition uses the same blocking tactic.